Oakland gun violence continues through weekend

OAKLAND -- Oakland's gun violence continued through the weekend, as 11 people were shot -- none fatally -- following Friday's carnage that left four dead in a period of six hours.

On Saturday at 12:43 p.m., three people -- two men and a woman -- were shot while on the 5800 block of Harmon Street. The victims were transported to the hospital and were reported in stable condition, police said Saturday night.

Another person was shot about 8 p.m. on the 1200 block of 98th Avenue, and was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening, Officer J. Moore said. Police are still looking for two suspects who escaped in a car.

Then on Sunday at about 1:45 p.m., a man in his mid-20s was shot in the arm on the 600 block of East 18th Street, and was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries, Lt. Robert Chan said. Police briefly blocked traffic in that area after residents reported hearing several gunshots.

Before 7:30 p.m., a local hospital called to report that a man walked in to the emergency room and said he had been shot near 80th Street and International Boulevard, said Oakland police Spokeswoman Johnna Watson.

And at 7:50 p.m., police were called to the 2600 block of Seminary Avenue where five people were shot, Watson said. The victims were taken to the hospital; all were expected to survive.

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It was not known Sunday whether the weekend's violence had any connection to the four homicides on Friday, when three men and one teenager were killed in an ongoing battle between "several groups" identified by Oakland police.

Friday's grim toll began at 2:30 p.m., when a 22-year-old Oakland man was shot multiple times on the 2300 block of East 17th Street in East Oakland. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was awake and talking to police at the scene but later died of his injuries at Highland Hospital.

Roughly a half-hour later, former Oakland resident Larry Lovette, 30, was found shot to death on Canon Avenue at Wellington Street next to Dimond Park. Police said they believe he was killed elsewhere before being dumped at the site.

At 4:15 p.m., Eddiebo Rodriguez, 20, of Oakland, was shot while driving in the 3400 block of West Street in West Oakland. People who knew him drove him in another vehicle to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5:26 p.m.

Then, at 8:15 p.m., 17-year-old Oakland resident Ken Harbin was shot and killed on the 9400 block of Hillside Avenue, just blocks from where he lived with his family. His death marked the final homicide of the night.